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Appendix G

Abbreviated CVs of Faculty in Asian American Studies


Associate Professor Pauline Agbayani-Siewert (Social Welfare and Asian American Studies). Ph.D. Social Welfare, 1993. External funding: Levi Strauss Foundation, Mott Foundation, National Institute of Health, National Institute of Mental Health; Prizes and awards: California State Legislature Recognition Award, Gabriela International Award, Teacher of the Year, University of Washington; Selected publications: “Filipino American women, work, and family: An examination of factors affecting high labor force participation” (1997); “Filipino American dating violence: Definitions, contextual justifications and experiences of dating violence” (2000); “Asian Pacific Americans and human rights/relations commissions” (2000); “Testing the Assumption of Cultural Similarity: The Case of Chinese and Filipino Americans” (2000).

Associate Professor Roshan Bastani (Public Health). Ph.D. Social/Health Psychology, University of Houston, 1986. External funding: National Cancer Institute; National Institute of Health, Department of Defense, State of California Department of Health Services, University-wide Taskforce on AIDS, Veterans Administration; Prizes and awards: Richard F. Dwyer-Eleanor W. Dwyer Award for Excellence in Research; Merit Award for Performance, Bombay University; Selected publications: “Breast cancer screening and related attitudes among Filipino-American women” (1997); “Mammography utilization and related attitudes among Korean-American women” (1998); “Demographic Predictors of Cancer Screening among Filipino and Korean Immigrants in the U.S.” (2000).

Professor Emil Berkanovic (Public Health). Ph.D. Sociology, UCLA, 1970. External funding: American Cancer Society, California State Department of Health, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Mental Health; Selected publications: “A Qualitative Overview of How the Ethnic Networks are Perceived by Ethnic Communities in Los Angeles” (1993); ”The Physical, Mental and Social Health Status of Older Chinese: A Cross-National Study” (1994); “Personal Constitution and Health Status Among Chinese Elderly” (1998).

Assistant Professor Mitchell Chang (Education). Ph.D. Education, UCLA, 1996. External funding: American Educational Research Association, Corporation for National Service, Exxon Educational Foundation; Mellon Foundation; Prizes and awards: Appointed Executive Director of the AERA (American Educational Research Association) Presidential Panel on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education, The American College Personnel Association Outstanding Outcomes Assessment Research Awards; Selected publications: “Does Racial Diversity Matter? The Educational Impact of A racially Diverse Undergraduate Population” (1999); “The Dynamics of Race in Higher Education: An Examination of the Evidence” (1999); ”Improving Racial Diversity: A Balancing Act Among Competing Interests” (2000); Compelling Interest: Examining the Evidence on Racial Dynamics in Higher Education (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).

Professor Emeritus Lucie Cheng (Sociology). Ph.D. Sociology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1971. External funding: Asia Society, Ford Foundation, Luce Foundation, National Education Commission, U.C. System-wide Pacific Rim Program, U.S.I.A. Linkage Program; Prizes and awards: Woman Warrior Award in Education, Mayor Tom Bradley Award in Education; Selected publications: Labor Immigration Under Capitalism: Asian Workers in the United States before World War II (1984, University of California Press); Linking Our Lives: Chinese Women of Los Angeles (1984, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press); Global Production and the Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim (1994, Temple University Press); The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring (1994, Temple University Press).

Professor King-Kok Cheung (English and Asian American Studies). Ph.D. English, 1984. External funding: Fulbright Lecturing and Research Award, University of Hong Kong, American Council of Learned Societies, Mellon Fellowship; Prizes and awards: Resident Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Fulbright Professorship, Statewide Humanities Lecturer for Smithsonian Institution; Selected publications: Asian American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography (1988, Modern Language Association); Articulate Silence: Hisaye Yamamoto, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Joy Kogawa (1993, Cornell University Press), Seventeen Syllables (1994, Rutgers University Press); An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature (1997, Cambridge University Press); Words Matter: Conversations with Asian American Writers (2000, University of Hawaii Press).

Associate Professor Clara Chu (Library and Information Studies). Ph.D. Library and Information Science, 1992. External funding: HEA Library Education and Human Resource Development Program; Prizes and awards: Most Innovative Volunteer Group Award, Maclraen Children’s Center, American Library Association, Special Guest Librarian at the Guadalajara International Book Fair; Selected publications: “Asians in Latin America” (1998); “Education for Multicultural Librarianship” (1998); ”Immigrant Children Mediators: Bridging the Literacy Gap in Immigrant Communities” (1999); “Literacy Practices of Linguistic Minorities: Socio-Linguistic issues and implications for Literacy Services” (1999).

Professor Cindy Fan (Geography). Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Asian American Studies. Ph.D. Geography, Ohio State University, 1989. External funding: Luce Foundation, National Science Foundation; Prizes and awards: Nystrom Dissertation Award Competition, Association of American Geographers; Selected publications: “Ethnicity in the School: A Case Study of the Los Angeles Unified School District” (1992), “The Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of U.S. Regional Income Inequality” (1994); “Migration in a Socialist Transitional Economy: Heterogeneity, Socioeconomic and Spatial Characteristics of Migrants in China and Guangdong Province” (1999), “Gender Differences in Chinese Migration” (1999), “Chinese Americans: Immigration, Settlement and Social Geography” (2001).

Assistant Professor Gaurang Mitu Gulati (Law). J.D., Harvard Law School, 1994. External funding: Law School Admissions Service grant; Prizes and awards: Law Clerk to the Honorable Sandra L. Lynch, Law Clerk to the Honorable Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Editor, Harvard Law Review; Selected publications: ”Why are There so Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms” (1997); “Efficiency Wages, Tournaments and Discrimination: A Theory of Employment Discrimination law for ‘High-Level’ Jobs” (1998); “Working Identity” (2000).

Adjunct Associate Professor Nancy Harada (Medicine). Ph.D. Public Health, Health Sciences, UCLA, 1991. External funding: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, Foundation for Physical Therapy, National Institute on Aging; Prizes and awards: Veterans Administration Performance Award, Ralph Goldman Research Award; Selected publications “Application of the behavioral model to health studies of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans,” (1995), “Use of Mental Health Services by Older Asian and Pacific Islander Americans” (1995), :”Medical health outcome studies in the Asian and Pacific Islander American Population” (2000).

Professor Shirley Hune (Urban Planning). Ph.D., American Civilization, The George Washington University, 1979. External funding: American Council on Education, Ford Foundation, Prizes and awards: President, Association of Asian American Studies, Selected publications: Asian Americans: Comparative and Global Perspectives (1991, Washington State University Press), Teaching Asian American Women’s History (1997, American Historical Association), Asian Pacific American Women in Higher Education (1998, Association of American Colleges and Universities).

Adjunct Professor Yuji Ichioka (History and Asian American Studies). M.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley, 1968. External funding: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Prizes and awards: Best Book Award, History/Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, Los Angeles Times book Prize in History, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Tokyo University, Selected publications: The Issei: The World of the First Generation Japanese Immigrant, 1885-1924 (1988, The Free Press), “Japanese Immigrant Nationalism: The Issei and the Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1941” (1990), Beyond National Boundaries: The Complexity of Japanese-American History (1998, Amerasia Journal), A Buried Past II: A Sequel to the Annotated Bibliography of the Japanese American Research Project Collection (1999, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press).

Associate Professor Marjorie Kagawa-Singer (Public Health and Asian American Studies). Ph.D. Anthropology, UCLA, 1988. External funding: Kaiser Family Foundation, National Institute of Health, National Institute on Aging, Oncology Nursing Society Foundation, Prizes and awards: City of Hope National Medical Center, Community Professional Leadership Recognition Award, National Cancer Society, Oncology Nursing Society/Chiron Therapeutics Susan Baird Excellence in Writing Award in Clinical Practice, the 2002 Herbert Nickens Memorial Lectureship of the 8th Biennial Symposium of the Intercultural Cancer Council; Selected publications: “A Paradigm for Culturally Based Care for Minority Populations,” (1994), “Impact of Breast Cancer on Asian Women,” (1997), “Cancer and Asian American Cultures,” (1998), “Asian American and Pacific Islander Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Rates and Healthy People 2000 Objectives” (2000).

Professor Jerry Kang (Law). J.D. Harvard Law School, 1993. External funding: Civil Liberties Public Education Fund; Prizes and awards: Law Clerk for the Honorable William A. Norris. Supervising Editor, Harvard Law Review, Professor of the Year at UCLA Law School; Selected publications: “Negative Action Against Asian Americans: The Internal Instability of Dworkin’s Defense of Affirmative Action” (1996), Beyond Self-Interest: Asian Pacific Americans Toward A Community of Justice (1996), “Cyber-race” (2000), Race, Law and Liberty: The Japanese American Internment and Redress—A Critical Inquiry (2001, Aspen Publishers)

Professor Snehendu Kar (Public Health). Dr. P.H., Behavioral Science and Health Education, UC Berkeley. External funding: California State Department of Health, HRSA/US Public Health Service, UC System-wide Pacific Rim Research program, World Health Organization; Prizes and awards: Fulbright School, Kellogg International Fellow in Health; Selected publications: “Invisible Americans: An Exploration of Indo-American Quality of Life” (1996), ”Acculturation and Quality of Life: A Comparative Study of Japanese Americans and Indo-Americans” (1998), Empowerment of Women for Health Promotion: A Multicultural Perspective (2000, Baywood Publishing).

Professor Emeritus Harry Kitano (Social Welfare). Ph.D. Sociology, UC Berkeley, 1958. External funding: Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, National Institute of Mental Health; Prizes and awards: Endowed Chair in Japanese American Studies at UCLA; Selected publications: Japanese Americans (1987, Prentice-Hall), Asian Americans (1995, Prentice-Hall), Generation and Identity (1993, Ginn Press), Applied Research on Health and Ethnicity: Asian and Asian American Elderly (1993, American Association of Retired Persons Press), Achieving the Impossible Dream: How Japanese Americans Obtained Redress (2000, University of Illinois Press).

(Updated) Associate Professor Vinay Lal (History). Ph.D. South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 1992. External funding: American Institute of Indian Studies, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, National Endowment for the Humanities; Prizes and awards: Fellow, National Museum of Ethnology (Osaka, Japan); Marc Galler Prize; William R. Kenan Fellow, Columbia University; Selected publications: “Reflections on the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean and Elsewhere” (1996), “Sikh Kirpans in California Schools: The Social Construction of Symbols, Legal Pluralism, and the Politics of Identity” (1996), “The Politics of History on the Internet: Cyber-Diasporic Hinduism and the North American Hindu Diaspora” (1999), Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures (2000, Oxford University Press).

Associate Professor Rachel Lee (English and Women’s Studies). Ph.D. English Literature, UCLA, 1995. External funding: National Endowment for the Humanities; Prizes and awards: UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship; Selected publications: The Americas of Asian American Literature: Gendered Fictions of Nation and Transnation (1999, Princeton University Press), “Teaching Asian American Short Fiction: A Critical Survey,” (2000), “Asian American Cultural Production in Asian Pacific Perspective” (2000).

Adjunct Professor Russell Leong (English and Asian American Studies).M.F.A. Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA, 1990. External funding: The Brody Arts Fund, California Council for the Humanities, California Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation; Prizes and awards: PEN Josephine Miles Literature Award, World Beyond Poetry Award; Selected publications: Moving the Image: Independent Asian Pacific American Media Arts, 1970-1990 (1991, UCLA Asian American Studies Center Press and Visual Communications), The Country of Dreams and Dust (1993, West End Press), Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience (1994, Routledge), Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories (2000, University of Washington Press).

Associate Professor Jinqi Ling (English and Asian American Studies). Ph.D., American Studies, Washington State University, 1992. Prizes and awards: Dean’s Marshal Award for the Division of Humanities at UCLA; Selected publications: “Race, Power and Cultural Politics in John Okada’s No-No Boy,” (1995), “Reading for Historical Specificities: Gender Negotiations in Louis Chu’s Eat A Bowl of Tea,” (1995), “Identity Crisis and Gender Politics: Reappropriating Asian American Masculinity” (1997), Narrating Nationalisms: Ideology and Form in Asian American Literature (1998, Oxford University Press), “John Okada’s No-No Boy” (2000).

Associate Professor David Wong Louie (English and Asian American Studies). M.F.A. Creative Writing, The University of Iowa, 1981. External funding: California Arts Council, Carl Djeraqssi Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Yaddo Corporation; Prizes and awards: John C. Zacharis First Book Award, Shirley Collier Prize, The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction; Selected publications: Pangs of Love (1991, Alfred A. Knopf), Dissident Song: A Contemporary Asian American Anthology (1992, Quarry West Press), “Outer Space” (1996), The Barbarians Are Coming (2000, G.P. Putnam and Sons).

(Updated) Professor James Lubben (Social Welfare). D.S.W., Gerontology, 1984. External funding: John A Hartford Foundation; National Institute on Aging, UC Academic Geriatric Resource Program; UC Pacific Rim program, U.S. Health Care Financing Administration; U.S. Bureau of Health Professions; State of California Department of Social Services; Los Angeles County Department of Children & Family Services. Prizes and awards: National “Leadership Award” from the Association for Gerontology Education in Social Work; Visiting Professor, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan; Best of UCLA, Distinguished Faculty Seminar; Selected publications: “Awareness and Utilization of Community Long Term Care Services by Elderly Korean and non-Hispanic White Americans” (1998), “Predictors of Use of Traditional Korean healers Among Elderly Koreans in Los Angeles” (1999), “Perceptions of Health and Use of Ambulatory Care: Differences Between Korean and White Elderly” (2000), Elderly Chinese in Pacific Rim Countries - Social Support and Integration (Hong Kong University Press, 2001), A Framework For Understanding Community Health Care In Ageing Societies (WHO Centre for Health Development Ageing and Health Technical Report Series, 2001), “Social support networks among older Chinese Americans in Los Angeles” ( 2001), “ Japanese American Elderly” (2001), “Preventing Loneliness and Isolation in Older Adulthood” (2002).

Professor Takashi Makinodan (Medicine). Ph.D. Zoology/Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1953. External funding: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, National Institute on Aging, National Institute for Health; Prizes and awards: Kleemeier Award of the Gerontological Society for Outstanding Research in Gerontology, Leadership Award in Science by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Immunology and Aging, and Order of Sacred Treasure, Gold Ray with Neck Ribbon, Emperor’s Award from the Government of Japan; Selected publications: “Application of the Behavioral Model to Health Studies of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans” (1995), “Cross-cultural Adaptation of the SF-36 Health Survey for Japanese American Elderly” (1998), “Profile of Tuberculosis among Foreign-Born Asians Residing in Los Angeles County, 1985-1994” (1999).

Associate Professor Valerie Matsumoto (History and Asian American Studies). Ph.D. U.S. History, Stanford University, 1985. External funding: John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation research award, Mellon Fellowship; Prizes and awards: Organization of American Historians-Japanese Association for American Studies Japan Residency, Clark Professor with the UCLA Center for 17th and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Mortarboard Teaching Award, Scholar-in-Residence, UC Davis; Selected publications: Farming the Home Place: A Japanese American Community in California, 1919-1982 (1993, Cornell University Press); Over the Edge: Remapping the American West (1999, University of California Press); Histories and Historians in the Making (2000, Amerasia Journal).

Associate Professor Ailee Moon (Social Welfare). Ph.D. Social Welfare, UC Berkeley, 1989. External funding: California Policy Seminar, State of California Department of Social Services, National Institute on Aging, Rockefeller Foundation; Prizes and awards: Coastal Asian Pacific American Community Mental Health Center Award, Korean American Alliance for the Mentally Ill Award, Council on Social Work Education Board of Directors; Selected publications: Korean “Perceptions of Elder Abuse and Help Seeking Patterns Among African-American, Caucasian-American, and Korean-American Elderly Women” (1993), “Health Practices of Korean Elderly People: National Health Promotion Priorities and Minority Community Needs” (1996), Korean American Women Living in Two Cultures (1997, Academia Koreana)

Professor Robert Nakamura (Film and Television and Asian American Studies. M.F.A. Theater, Film, and Television, UCLA, 1975. External funding: National Endowment for the Arts, California Civil Liberties Public Education program, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, California Arts Council, Brody Arts Fund of California; Prizes and awards: Endowed Chair, Japanese American Studies at UCLA, Selected as one of the top 100 Producers of 1999 by AV Video Multimedia Producer Magazine, Retrospective show at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., Steve Tatsukawa Award; Films and Videos*: "Conversations Before the War/After the War" (1985); "Something Strong Within" (1994); "From Bullets to Ballots" (1997); "Once Upon A Camp" educational videos series of "Interactions," "Dear Miss Breed," and "The Bracelet" (2000).

* Professor Don Nakanishi (Education and Asian American Studies). Ph.D.: Political Science, Harvard University, 1978. External funding: Principal or Co-Principal Investigator for grants from the Ahmanson Foundation, ARCO Foundation, California Endowment, California Civil Liberties Public Education Fund, California Community Foundation, California Policy Seminar, California Wellness Foundation, Carnegie Foundation, Ford Foundation, Irvine Foundation, Kaiser Permanete, Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Pacific Bell/SBCPrizes, Rockefeller Foundation, Southern California Edison Corporation, Southern California Gas Company, and a number of individual and corporate donors to Center endowment accounts; Prizes and awards: Appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund Board of Directors, National Scholars Award from the National Association for Asian Pacific American Education, National President of the Association of Asian American Studies. Distinguished Alumnus Award, Yale University Alumni Association; Selected publications: National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac (Nine editions, beginning in 1978, UCLA Asian American Studies Press), "A Quota on Excellence? The Debate on Asian American Admissions" (1989); "Surviving Democracy's 'Mistake': Japanese Americans and Executive Order 9066" (1993); The Asian American Educational Experience (1995, Routledge), "When Numbers Do Not Add Up: Asian Americans and California Politics" (1998), “Beyond Electoral Politics: Renewing A Search for a Paradigm of Asian Pacific American Politics” (2000).

Professor Kazuo Nihira (Psychiatry). Ph.D. Psychology, University of Southern California, 1965. External funding: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Prizes and awards: Visiting Professor, Keio University; Selected publications: “Home Environment of Developmentally Delayed Children: A Comparison Between Euro-American and Asian-American Families” (1991), “Ecocultural Assessment in Families of Children with Developmental Delays: Construct and Concurrent Validities” (1994), “Japanese-American Families: Child-rearing Practices and Family Relationships” (1996).

Professor Paul Ong (Urban Planning and Asian American Studies). Ph.D. Economics, UC Berkeley, 1983. External funding: ARCO Foundation, California Policy Seminar, Carnegie Foundation, Ford Foundation, Irvine Foundation, Levi-Strauss Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Mott Foundation. California State Legislature; Prizes and awards: Director, Institute for Industrial Relations; Director, Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies; Selected publications: Beyond Asian American Poverty (1993, LEAP and UCLA Asian American Studies Center); Global Production and the Apparel Industry in the Pacific Rim (1994, Temple University Press); The State of Asian Pacific America: Economic Diversity, Issues and Policies (1994, LEAP and UCLA Asian American Studies Center); The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring (1994, Temple University Press); The State of Asian Pacific America: Transforming Race Relations (2000, LEAP and UCLA Asian American Studies Center).

Professor William Ouchi (Management). Ph.D. Business Administration, University of Chicago, 1972. External funding: Nissan-HBCU, Riordan programs; Prizes and awards: Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Professor in Corporate Renewal at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, Distinguished Teaching Award by UCLA Alumni Association; Selected publications: Theory Z: How American Management Can Meet the Japanese Challenge (1981, Addison-Wesley), The M Form Society: How American Teamwork Can Recapture the Competitive Edge (1984, Addison-Wesley), Organizational Economics (1986, Jossey-Bass).

Associate Professor Kyeyoung Park (Anthropology and Asian American Studies). Ph.D., Anthropology, City University of New York, 1990. External funding: National Institute of Health, Russell Sage Foundation; Prizes and awards: Outstanding Book Award, History/Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, Visiting Professor, Princeton University; Selected publications: “The Re-Invention of Affirmative Action: Korean Immigrants’ Changing Conceptions of African and Latin Americans,” (1995), “The Morality of a Commodity: A Case Study of ‘Rebuilding L.A. Without Liquor Stores’” (1996), “Use and Abuse of Race and Culture: Black/Korean Tension in America” (1996), The Korean American Dream: Immigrants and Small Business in New York City (1997, Cornell University Press).

Assistant Professor Ninez Ponce (Public Health).Ph.D. Health Sciences, UCLA, 1998. External funding: National Cancer Institute, California State Department of Health Services; Prizes and awards: Postdoctoral Fellow, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; Selected publications: “Health Policy Framework (for the Asian and Pacific Islander community)” 1993, “Do Immigrants Use Health Services More so than Non-Immigrants?” (forthcoming)

Professor Hiromi Lorraine Sakata (Ethnomusiciology). Ph.D. Music, University of Washington, 1976. External funding: Fulbright Fellowship, Royalty Research Fund, University of Washington; Prizes and awards: Visiting Professor, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-I Azam University; Selected publications: “The Sacred and the Profane” (1994), “The Musical Curtain” (2000), Asian and Asian American Music (forthcoming, Portland School District)

Associate Professor Michael Salman (History). Ph.D. History, Stanford University, 1993. External funding: MacArthur Foundation, Selected publications: “In Our Orientalist Imagination: Historiography and the Culture of Colonialism in the United States” (1991), “’Nothing Without Labor’: Prisons, Discipline, and the Representation of Colonial Progress in the Philippines, 1898-1914” (1995), The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines (forthcoming, University of California Press).

Associate Professor Shu-mei Shih (East Asian L &C, Comparative Literature and Asian American Studies). Ph.D. Comparative Literature, UCLA, 1992. External funding: American Council of Learned Societies, Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, Multicampus Research Group grant from UC Office of the President; Prizes and awards: Dean’s Marshal Award, Division of the Humanities at UCLA, Resident research Fellow, UC Humanities Research Institute, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UC Berkeley; Selected publications: “Nationalism and Korean American Women’s Writing: Theresa Hak-kyung Cha’s Dictee,” (1997), “Gender, Race, and Semicolonialism: Liu Na’ou’s Urban Shanghai Landscape,” (1998), The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 (forthcoming, University of California Press), Visuality and identity: Cultural Transactions Across the Chinese Pacific (forthcoming, University of California Press).

Associate Professor James Tong (Political Science). Ph.D. Political Science, University of Michigan 1985. External funding: Ford Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, National Science Foundation; Prizes and awards: Gabriel Almond Award of the American Political Science Association; Selected publications: Disorder Under Heaven: Rebellions and Banditry in the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644 (1991, Stanford University Press), “City Participation in the 1989 Democracy Movement in China: A Structural Analysis” (1998).

Associate Professor Cindy Yee-Bradbury (Psychology and Asian American Studies). Ph.D. Psychology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 1991. External funding: National Institute of Mental Health, National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia; Prizes and awards: Edwin Scheiderer Award for Outstanding Research, Consortium on Intercollegiate Cooperation Fellow, Selected publications: “Mental health Research on Asian Americans,” (1994), “Ethnicity and Gender in Scales of Psychosis-Proneness and Mood Disorders” (1995), “A Longitudinal Analysis of Eye Tracking and dysfunction and attention in recent-onset schizophrenia” (1998).

Associate Professor Henry Yu (History and Asian American Studies). Ph.D. American History, Princeton University, 1994. External funding: Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Prizes and awards: Davis Merit Prize,. Woodrow Wilson Society of Fellows at Princeton University, University of California Humanities Research Institute Fellow, Wesleyan University Center for Humanities Senior Research Fellow; Selected publications: ”Orientalizing the Pacific Rim: The Production of Exotic Knowledge By American Missionaries and Sociologists in the 1920’s” (1996), “The ‘Oriental Problem’ in America: Linking the Identities of Chinese and Japanese American Intellectuals” (1998), “On a Stage Built By Others: Creating An Intellectual History of Asian Americans” (2000), Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact and Exoticism in Modern America (forthcoming, Oxford University Press.

Professor Min Zhou (Sociology and Asian American Studies). Ph.D., Sociology, SUNY-Albany, 1989. External funding: Russell Sage Foundation, U.S. Department of Education, California Policy Research Center; Prizes and awards: Fellow, Russell Sage Foundation, Thomas Znaniecki Award from the American Sociological Association for the Outstanding Book on International Migration, Senior Research Fellow, U.S. Department of Education; Selected publications: Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave (1992, Temple University Press), Growing Up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States (1998, Russell Sage Foundation), Contemporary Asian America: A Multidisciplinary Reader (2000, New York University Press).

 





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